Share of urban population living in a city with a renewable energy target or policy
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Global · 2020
Share of urban population living in a city with a renewable energy target or policy worldwide was about 25% in 2020 (REN21).
Share of urban population living in a city with a renewable energy target or policy: every country and year, and how it is measured
- Publisher
- REN21
- Authority tier
- T3 Research
- Locator
- Key Findings of the 2021 Edition
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
By the end of 2020, more than 1 billion people – about 25% of the urban population – lived in a city with a renewable energy target and/or policy.
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Cite this figure
APA
REN21. (2020). Renewables in Cities Global Status Report. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.ren21.net/reports/cities-global-status-report/. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_6K7H4NJWZWNQDBH3JFB32BGW7X
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- REN21. "Renewables in Cities Global Status Report." 2020, https://www.ren21.net/reports/cities-global-status-report/. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_6K7H4NJWZWNQDBH3JFB32BGW7X.
- Chicago
- REN21. "Renewables in Cities Global Status Report." 2020. https://www.ren21.net/reports/cities-global-status-report/. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_6K7H4NJWZWNQDBH3JFB32BGW7X.
- BibTeX
- @misc{ren212020share2bgw7x, author = {{REN21}}, title = {Renewables in Cities Global Status Report}, year = {2020}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_6K7H4NJWZWNQDBH3JFB32BGW7X}, note = {Original source: https://www.ren21.net/reports/cities-global-status-report/. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- REN21 · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 3 · Research and companies
- Report
- Renewables in Cities Global Status Report
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Key Findings of the 2021 Edition
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_6K7H4NJWZWNQDBH3JFB32BGW7X